After 35 years of lakefront living we have decided to pack it all up, sell the house and step out of our comfort zone and into the great unknown. We are going to join a small segment of the population that live in their Motorhome and travel year round through North America. The task of packing and moving is daunting in any situation. Our situation creates an additional challenge, packing a lifetime into less than 400 square feet of living space. We started this process a year ago and it will take several more months to complete. We are going through the house room by room, item by item. About a third of everything goes into the trash, another third gets donated to charity or given to friends and family and the remaining third we decide to keep, at least for now. Karl and I build two “Pods” inside a shelter, each pod is 8 feet wide and 12 feet long, these pods will store the items that we decide to keep. Our good friend Ron is building a new home for himself this summer so we offer to “lend” him all of our furniture once our house sells and save him the cost of furnishing his house. We let him know that we may take it back if we ever get a new home in the future. We spend most of March and April getting the house ready so it can be on the market by May 1st. We have chosen Samantha (Dagostino) Butkiewicus to be our real estate agent, Sam is one of the ski club kids that we took to Florida so many years ago. Sam has six months to sell the house while we spend that time keeping the place clean and neat as we continue to pack and move things.

It has been a brutally cold winter in Massachusetts and it’s not over yet. We are not looking forward to going home but it’s time to go and begin the process of putting the house up for sale. We park Miss Adventure at PBF and reluctantly wave goodbye as we board the bus for the airport. After being dropped off at the terminal, I quickly realize that we left the motorhome unlocked and I need to catch the bus, go back to the camper, lock the door and get back to the airport before flight time. Somehow I made it back in time and we jump on JetBlue to come home. It is always an Adventure and sometimes it is a Miss Adventure. Can’t wait to do it again.